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  1. Rusty Muck
    S!nclair only needs to keep James Spahn happy, and they will be pretty much set. The second he leaves, they will be toast. If any station may be on the way down, it could be WIAT. But it wouldn't be a sudden collapse because of CBS's dominance in primetime and their carriage of SEC football (also vis-a-vis CBS). And very little has actually changed at WIAT... the most major change simply being the nameplate of their owners.
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    Wow. WXYZ really wants to scrap the "Now" brand and format. I betcha that, in a few weeks, it will be quietly renamed "7 Action News at 4." Maybe it happens in the next week, what with the ramp-up of May sweeps.
  3. Rusty Muck
    It's just a scrambling of Gannett, with only one N and T. Whoever thought this up probably was the same person who played with Photoshop to "redesign" the Cleveland Browns helmet a few weeks earlier...
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    12.2 is branded as "K-JAC NBC," a nod to the longtime callsign of the market's former NBC affiliate, S!nclair Fox affiliate KBTV/4. If I'm not mistaken, ALL of KBMT's newscasts are simulcast on 12.1 and 12.2.
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    Cox would need to rid itself of their newspaper division in order for that to make sense.
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    WKYC has been doing the same thing for close to a decade now. Currently, the Calvetta Brothers Floor Show is the main sponsor. Oddly enough, the sponsor mention is the only place where the "Channel 3 News" title is shown in the newscast open (WKYC's main logo is otherwise shown).
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    That's what I was thinking. Normally, Scripps has brought on new talent to anchor 'The Now...' but KB's sports director Jeff Russo recently made the switch to news, and now handles the 5:30pm news solo.
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    Funny and sad that WKBW has links for both "The List" and "LAA" at the bottom of their website, yet it's likely that "The List" will never air on KB. And WKBW will have a void in the 4pm hour once Queen Latifah's show leaves the air, IIRC, in June.
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    Has anyone posted this infamous WDAZ open before? Ye Gods.
  10. Rusty Muck
    Cleveland is one of "Dr." Phil McGraw's strongest markets and has been since WKYC landed the show. And Ellen is a powerhouse for them at 4pm. (Seriously, Phil is as much a doctor as you and I are.)
  11. Rusty Muck
    WJW has a 30 minute newscast at 11am on Sundays. Obviously because of the NFL on Fox, it can't run at noon.
  12. Rusty Muck
    Chroma Cues would work with the CBS standardized look. It's just the rest of the open that is beyond hokey and small-market. But that's not the worst part: "In your community... where you live... it's WJZ. Maryland's News Station." I have no idea how Pat Garrett can say that mush and keep a straight face. Why is K.C. Robertson ashamed to have Pat simply say, "From WJZ 13, Maryland's News Station, this is Eyewitness News" ??? Did K.C. Robertson acquire the computers WKBW ditched after the Scripps takeover? Because it sure looks like it.
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    The logos for both stations are fine IMO. It's the tacking on of the NBC peacock that just doesn't work... and that's more than likely due to the terms of their NBC affiliation contracts.
  14. Rusty Muck
    Although, when WSVN inevitably gets sold, the new owners will probably be forced to rebrand the station as "Fox 7." It won't be "WSVN 7" forever...
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    That, and Fox may be simply biding their time on WSVN. Ed Ansin is, what... in his 90s? Fox really was the first network to have a clear branding mandate (using the network logo and name with the station logo and name), which dates back to when the former MetroMedia stations were rebranded as "Fox" stations. The former WNEW-TV was colloquially known for decades as "MetroMedia Channel 5," which became "Fox Television Channel 5" as WNYW months before the Fox network even began broadcasting. Fox, MyTV and the CW usually have strict branding conventions, but CBS, NBC and ABC generally limit their branding conventions for affiliates to logo placement.
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    I would tuck in the ABC bug to the lower right corner not unlike how WXYZ and WKBW display it...
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    In Memoriam

    Rusty Muck replied to jdcnow's topic in General TV

    If you think about a signature journalist that literally shaped a television station and became their defining personality for decades to come, the following five people immediately come to my mind: Ralph Renick at WTVJ. Dorothy Fuldheim at WEWS. Irv Weinstein at WKBW. Jim Jensen at WCBS. ...and Bill Bonds at WXYZ.
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    He may be on the air until he goes to that Great Woolybear in The Sky. The same thing pretty much happened with Dorothy Fuldheim... she was at WEWS every day until she tragically suffered a stroke at her desk. It should be noted that Dick has reduced his on-air presence to the 6pm weeknight newscasts in a Johnny Carson-type ceremonial schedule. Melissa Mack and Andre Bernier do the majority of work on WJW's evening newscasts, especially in the event of severe weather.
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    IIRC, that leaves WKBW as the only Scripps station on the East Coast with a 5:00am morning news start time.
  20. Rusty Muck
    If their plans to turn NewsChannel 8 into a national network - either via cable or subchannels - it would render much of those newscasts blocks redundant and unnecessary. Timing is everything. KSNV really can't put any other syndicated programming onto that timeslot right now because the TV season is already underway. I betcha by September, S!nclair will plug in their group-purchased syndicated offerings and daytime strips onto KSNV, and move many of the displaced newscasts onto KVCW.
  21. Rusty Muck
    That screams "placeholder" to me. I personally doubt that S!nclair will follow through on turning KSNV into a de facto all-newser.
  22. Rusty Muck
    Wow. I had the impression that Kai was going to be the "heir apparent" for Gordon Peterson at WJLA.
  23. Rusty Muck
    Didn't WTVJ have a seperate Spanish-language newscast back in the 1960s? As for a station where Spanish-language newscasts are the primary newscast, I believe that WORA is the first. XHRIO (when it was a Fox affiliate, that has since been moved to KFXV-LD) had and has English-language newscasts but has its newscasts set up similar to that of Univision affiliate KVNO.
  24. Rusty Muck
    Are you purposefully trying to be a troll? What your posts are suggesting amounts to anarchy by forcing an unnecessary takeover of a company that has been playing by the rules the whole time. There is no justification for what you suggest, nor would there be any. It is impossible to comprehend just how wrong-headed you are.
  25. Rusty Muck
    ... There. Are. No. Words.
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